Government legal advice says medivac 'unconstitutional'

12/02/2019|3min

Advice from the from the Solicitor-General on the medivac bill suggests amendments passed by the Senate last year are ‘unconstitutional’.
The solicitor-general told Attorney-General Christian Porter that Labor's proposed amendments are in breach of Section 53 of the constitution, because they set up a panel of doctors who must be paid.
The amendments were originally made in the Senate and under the constitution the Senate is not allowed to make bills increasing the spending of public money.